RE: gitweb: please show tags file history browsing

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jakub Narebski [mailto:jnareb@xxxxxxxxx]
> 
> "Tjernlund" <tjernlund@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > I would really like to see where the tags are when browsing
> > file or directory history in gitweb. Would that be possible?
> 
> Hmmm... that is second such request...

:)

> 
> While it probably be possible to show tags in 'history' view, it would
> be not easy.  The problem is that 'history' view shows only commits
> that touch specified file or directory, and tagged commits usually do
> not touch those files (at least if one is using "bump version number"
> commits to tag them).
> 
> So you would have:
> 1. Design where to show those tags - they would be between shown
>    commits.
> 2. Create code which shows some/all tags that are between commits in
>    the presence of nonlinear history, without affecting performance
>    too badly.

Ah, that is too bad because I think it would really useful.
Image browsing a drivers history in the linux kernel. Then it would be
really nice to see what changes/bug fixes went into what release.

 Jocke

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